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2015-08-27

Suicide at an Israeli brothel highlights the status of sex workers in Israel

Vatic Note: This is a well written article and worth the read. Now you can understand why they hate Christians and kill them off every time they take over a country. Russia is a prime example. These khazars killed off 63 million Christians in Russia between 1917 and 1980's when the Berlin wall came down.

Remember, these khazars originally were one of 7 cultures that worshipped THE PHALLIC SYMBOL, and this is proof of how they have not let go of that religion and somehow have incorporated it into their system. Why its an issue, is because Israel is a "theocracy" or at least is said to be one, where religion and laws are mixed together and are part of the government.

This below and their heavy involvement in internet porn which is at obscene levels right now and is a multi billion dollar industry, is what makes it confusing if you believe the leaders of Israel are Jewish, if they are not Jewish, but khazars, then this makes perfect sense to find this there.

In the past, we did a blog on kidnapping women in other countries to be forced into prostitution was legal, as ruled by an Israeli court. It was illegal to do the same to an Israeli woman, so that is why so many are from other countries, like this woman below was from Russia.

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JERUSALEM POST – More than 600 people protested in Tel Aviv
following the suicide of a woman who lived and worked at a brothel
nearby. The woman’s death and the demonstration, a rare sign of support
for sex workers, have brought the legally gray area of prostitution in
Israel back into the spotlight.

The woman, who has not been officially identified is believed to
have been in her 30s and originally from the former Soviet Union.
Activists stated that there are more than 200 brothels operating in the
city of Tel Aviv alone.

“Selling or purchasing (sex) is legal – well it’s not illegal – but
pimping, running or owning a brothel, (or) advertising the sale of sex”
is criminal, Michal Leibel, a lawyer and the director of the Task Force
on Human Trafficking and Prostitution, an Israeli NGO, told The Media
Line.

The Israeli legal system is based on the idea that if something is
not forbidden then it is not illegal. This leaves prostitution “not
legalized and not regulated,” with the actual act not a crime but most
activity surrounding it illegal, Leibel said. This is a similar position
to the law in several European countries, as well as England or Canada,
the advocate explained.

Many commentators consider there to be three basic models for
dealing with the question of how a legal system views the sex trade.
Traditional criminalization has been practiced in much of the West in
the past and continues to be the norm for law enforcement agencies in
many parts of the world. Critics argue that among other problems this
unfairly criminalizes the sex workers themselves, pushing them
underground and leaving them open to abuse from pimps and customers.

Some countries, most notably Germany and the Netherlands, have taken
the opposite approach, deciding that the protection of sex workers is
better achieved by allowing them to operate legally. Such policies have
led to Amsterdam’s famous Red Light District, where scantily-clad
prostitutes stand in windows surrounded by red lightbulbs to offer their
wares to customers.

A third option, a compromise of the previous two, is known as the
Nordic or Swedish model, and involves legalizing the sale but not the
buying of sex. By tackling demand it is hoped that supply will also be
reduced. It is this method that the Israeli Task Force on Human
Trafficking and Prostitution is advocating.

The organization is pushing
for the implementation of a change to the law which would allow police
to charge an individual found buying or attempting to purchase sex.
Several members of the Knesset from across the political spectrum have
expressed support for such reforms, including Zehava Gal-On from the
dovish Meretz party, and Shuli Moalem Refaeli from the hawkish Bayit
Yehudi party, Leibel said.

Legalization has been shown to increase demand for prostitution, as
the trade becomes legal and therefore no longer taboo. It also fails in
its attempts to improve the lives of sex workers, Leibel argued.
Additionally the sale of a person’s body is “degrading (to) human
dignity,” she added. Violence and sexual attacks towards prostitutes,
and women as a whole across society, may increase in a culture where
women can be purchased freely.

“Treating women as a consumer product for sexual consumption
embodies the message that it is possible to purchase women (like) any
other product. This… reinforces and even increases the inferior status
of women,” MK Zehava Gal-On, the chairperson for the Knesset
Subcommittee on Trafficking in Women and Prostitution said. But it is
unclear how precisely sex work and human trafficking, and other forms of
violence against women, are linked.

“Today very few of the women are trafficked… most of (those) in
prostitution in Israel are local,” Tali Koral, CEO of Machon Todaa, an
awareness center for combating prostitution, told The Media Line.
“Israel combated trafficking in women in the early years of the 2000s
and did good work on this matter,” Koral explained. She argued that
prostitution was a crime against humanity and as such should never be
legalized but other commentators, pointing to a perceived
differentiation between sex work and violence against women, have
suggested alternative policies.

Such advocates, among them a number of academics and sex workers’
rights organizations, state that traditional feminist arguments against
legalization of prostitution completely exclude sex workers’ voices from
the debate.

“Many people conflate human trafficking for sexual exploitation with
prostitution or, as I would rather call it, with “sex work” (paid
sexual or sexualized encounters among consenting adults of all
genders),” Sonja Dolinsek, a blogger who focuses on sex workers’ rights
wrote in an article for the Council of Europe. By interfering in private
consenting sexual encounters between adults the state jeopardizes sex
workers’ rights and security, Dolinsek said.

The Nordic model, it has been argued, can have a similar impact on
sex workers safety as criminalization. If clients are driven underground
by the law then prostitutes servicing them will also have to go out of
sight, placing them in danger. A safer model for governments to follow,
Dolinsek suggested, is a fourth option known as the Merseyside model.

Following the death of a female sex worker in 2006 the police
service in Liverpool, England, implemented a shift in policy by which
any crimes committed against a prostitute in the course of her job would
be considered as hate-crimes. Accordingly punishments for such crimes
would be far harsher, similar to sentencing for crimes motivated by
racism or homophobia. Advocates of this policy suggest that sex workers
are victims of rape and violence far more commonly that the rest of
society, not because they are women, but because they are sex workers –
and the law should therefore reflect this.

Since the implementation of the Merseyside model the police force in
Liverpool have reported dramatic rises in the conviction rates of
attacks against sex workers.

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